Neff Mountain
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Rio Grande National Forest Click for map. Neff Mountain sits with a cliff face to the west and I decided to climb it. The high point is a few feet back of that cliff face and an older geocache is some distance down the other side, so I decided to go and visit both. It looks like a long ramp up around the south edge of the cliff and another route is possible around the north side, so these will be my routes up and down. There are also old logging roads that come up the north side, but nothing I have documents much of them and the cross country routes look quite fine. It is too short to feel the need to resort to a road. Just a little mountain about a mile off with a mesa flavor. I do have to make my way along the road a short way to start up the south side, but there is plenty of shoulder along the way and turnouts should I have decided to do an out and back along the south route. Just past a small creek, I start to climb upward. It is a late start, so I get to watch th